Uncanny x-men vs Ultimate comics x-men

#1 Posted by Kallarkz (3300 posts) - 1 year, 2 months ago - Show Bio

Which would you choose?

#2 Posted by RoboShark (1199 posts) - 1 year, 2 months ago - Show Bio

Uncanny right now.

#3 Posted by Kallarkz (3300 posts) - 1 year, 2 months ago - Show Bio

/bump.

I have been really trying to get into the Ultimate Universe... and tbh i am really not digging this UXM series even though it has almost all of my favorite x-men

#4 Posted by Illuminatus (9301 posts) - 1 year, 2 months ago - Show Bio

Ult. X-Men is just starting, so it's hard to compare it too UXM.

#5 Posted by Kallarkz (3300 posts) - 1 year, 2 months ago - Show Bio

eh...i think im just going to drop both an go for Wolverine and the X-men..more consistent writing and just having more fun with that book that either of these 2

#6 Posted by TDK_1997 (9649 posts) - 1 year, 2 months ago - Show Bio

@Kallarkz: Great choice.

#7 Posted by John Valentine (15777 posts) - 1 year, 13 days ago - Show Bio

Uncanny X-Men is the best it's been in years right now. Dare I say it, but I think it's the best the book has been since the original Claremont run.

#8 Posted by AgeofHurricane (6545 posts) - 1 year, 12 days ago - Show Bio

Ultimate Comics.

#9 Posted by BlackArmor (5895 posts) - 1 year, 12 days ago - Show Bio

Uncanny

#10 Posted by KainScion (2975 posts) - 1 year, 12 days ago - Show Bio

ultimate x-men. i'm loving every issue, it always leaves with 'how til the next? DAMN!'. uncanny is just a douche fest with ocassinal namor either really hitting on emma or going down on something disgusting.

#11 Edited by AgeofHurricane (6545 posts) - 1 year, 12 days ago - Show Bio

@KainScion said:

ultimate x-men. i'm loving every issue, it always leaves with 'how til the next? DAMN!'. uncanny is just a douche fest with ocassinal namor either really hitting on emma or going down on something disgusting.

Exactly, after each and everysingle issue I'm left wanting for more. Uncanny is actually the "Cyclops and Emma Frost show - featuring Hope Summers !" which i said it was going to be since it's debut.

#12 Posted by John Valentine (15777 posts) - 1 year, 12 days ago - Show Bio

Ultimate Comics X-Men issues are way too short, plus what we're seeing is hardly new. It's been done so many times before.

#13 Posted by AgeofHurricane (6545 posts) - 1 year, 12 days ago - Show Bio

@John Valentine said:

Ultimate Comics X-Men issues are way too short, plus what we're seeing is hardly new. It's been done so many times before.

They're short, but they don't bore you to death with a monologue from the ever changing antagonist.

#14 Posted by John Valentine (15777 posts) - 1 year, 12 days ago - Show Bio

@AgeofHurricane said:

@John Valentine said:
Ultimate Comics X-Men issues are way too short, plus what we're seeing is hardly new. It's been done so many times before.
They're short, but they don't bore you to death with a monologue from the ever changing antagonist.

Unit's fantastic. Don't diss Unit! Gillen's characterisation is fantastic. It's everything that Fraction's run should have been. The dialogue is smart and sarcastic. This is the best Uncanny has been in years, IMO.

#15 Posted by AgeofHurricane (6545 posts) - 1 year, 12 days ago - Show Bio

@John Valentine said:

@AgeofHurricane said:
@John Valentine said:
Ultimate Comics X-Men issues are way too short, plus what we're seeing is hardly new. It's been done so many times before.
They're short, but they don't bore you to death with a monologue from the ever changing antagonist.
Unit's fantastic. Don't diss Unit! Gillen's characterisation is fantastic. It's everything that Fraction's run should have been. The dialogue is smart and sarcastic. This is the best Uncanny has been in years, IMO.

I know. Unit is probably one of the best villians this side of Marvel, i just don't think that Gillen is making the Extinction Team live up to their ethos as a whole, the way i see it (and others too), he focuses far too much on the oppressors than he does on the majority of characters at his disposal. 9 times out of 10 the characterisation is brilliant, personally, I'm just not feeling it.

#16 Posted by RogueOracle (242 posts) - 1 year, 12 days ago - Show Bio

Uncanny.

#17 Edited by John Valentine (15777 posts) - 1 year, 12 days ago - Show Bio

@AgeofHurricane said:

@John Valentine said:
@AgeofHurricane said:
@John Valentine said:
Ultimate Comics X-Men issues are way too short, plus what we're seeing is hardly new. It's been done so many times before.
They're short, but they don't bore you to death with a monologue from the ever changing antagonist.
Unit's fantastic. Don't diss Unit! Gillen's characterisation is fantastic. It's everything that Fraction's run should have been. The dialogue is smart and sarcastic. This is the best Uncanny has been in years, IMO.
I know. Unit is probably one of the best villians this side of Marvel, i just don't think that Gillen is making the Extinction Team live up to their ethos as a whole, the way i see it (and others too), he focuses far too much on the oppressors than he does on the majority of characters at his disposal. 9 times out of 10 the characterisation is brilliant, personally, I'm just not feeling it.

So far we've had the team saving San Fran from Sinister/battling a dreaming Celestial, the Tabula Rasa stuff and the S.W.O.R.D. stuff, I'd say that's living up to their ethos. I don't have a problem with that. He's made/remade some genuinely interesting villains for the X-Verse and he's continued elements of characterisation this far throughout his run, even from before Regenesis. Reading it back over I think he's struck a really good balance.

I think the villains are as essential to the book as the X-Tinction team, especially now that we really don't have that many interesting villains left. Also, he manages to build up the villains whilst also manage to focus on the X-Men - Sinister/Cyclops/Emma, Unit/Hope/Namor/Emma etc. Hitting so many birds with so many stones.

I found the Breaking Point arc such a bore, because I can't stand Colossus/Kitty, but since Fear itself e's made Colossus genuinely interesting, as shown by the most recent issue of Uncanny X-Men.

I'm also beginning to like Namor. His Magneto makes sense too, unlike "The Freaking Magneto" we got from Fraction. His Emma's a sarcastic bitch, Magik is lethal.

#18 Posted by AgeofHurricane (6545 posts) - 1 year, 12 days ago - Show Bio

@John Valentine said:

@AgeofHurricane said:
@John Valentine said:
@AgeofHurricane said:
@John Valentine said:
Ultimate Comics X-Men issues are way too short, plus what we're seeing is hardly new. It's been done so many times before.
They're short, but they don't bore you to death with a monologue from the ever changing antagonist.
Unit's fantastic. Don't diss Unit! Gillen's characterisation is fantastic. It's everything that Fraction's run should have been. The dialogue is smart and sarcastic. This is the best Uncanny has been in years, IMO.
I know. Unit is probably one of the best villians this side of Marvel, i just don't think that Gillen is making the Extinction Team live up to their ethos as a whole, the way i see it (and others too), he focuses far too much on the oppressors than he does on the majority of characters at his disposal. 9 times out of 10 the characterisation is brilliant, personally, I'm just not feeling it.
So far we've had the team saving San Fran from Sinister/battling a dreaming Celestial, the Tabula Rasa stuff and the S.W.O.R.D. stuff, I'd say that's living up to their ethos. I don't have a problem with that. He's made/remade some genuinely interesting villains for the X-Verse and he's continued elements of characterisation this far throughout his run, even from before Regenesis. Reading it back over I think he's struck a really good balance.
I think the villains are as essential to the book as the X-Tinction team, especially now that we really don't have that many interesting villains left. Also, he manages to build up the villains whilst also manage to focus on the X-Men - Sinister/Cyclops/Emma, Unit/Hope/Namor/Emma etc. Hitting so many birds with so many stones.
I found the Breaking Point arc such a bore, because I can't stand Colossus/Kitty, but since Fear itself e's made Colossus genuinely interesting, as shown by the most recent issue of Uncanny X-Men.

I don't. The way Scott pranced into the meeting room with his whole "Extinction" speach felt as if they were supposed to be a lot more greater than what they are now, staring down the face/eyes of Gods and what not, he made it seem (to me) as if they wouldn't have trouble with the next threat that came their way, yet, they have. The whole team spent three issues trying to defeat Sinister in an act of, yes, saving San Fran from the Celestials, being the Extinction Team, that didn't need to be the case, an to add insult to injury the first time around, part of that arc was speant dealing with Hope and her obvious connection with the Phoenix Force, which has been evident since her damned creation. But that's all they did, stare and waste time.

Then the left over Phalanx came, as usual, Gillen spent the first half of that issue focusing (and in depth explaining) on that particular foe instead of the team he was supposed to be showcasing, then, when they came the damage had already been done, on an inane scale, being the Extinction Team, they should have been there from the get-go, being the Extinction Team, they should have had no trouble defeating it, but, they did. If that Phalanx never managed to lower it's own sheilds then I'd really be wondering about Scotts team right about now.

Then came the Tabula Rasa arc, which was actually going places in terms of showing what they could do as a team, but they couldn't even pull off defeating one single enemy, now, I'm not saying that they're supposed to be all uber-powerful and curb-stomp every single enemy they come across, but stop struggling at eveyr nook and cranny when you think defeating such high-leveled enemies is childs-play.

Prison Break was a really enjoyable arc, i liked it, though, i was thinking it was going to be a lot more Magik-centric given it's opening but sitll, i liked it. Some characters, to me, didn't get enough speach/panel time (and I'm sure you know who I'm talking about) but all in all, there some good parts to it.

Given some preview pages that i have seen, me thinks I'm going to be enjoying the AvX tie-ins from this series, i still see some faults, but it's over all still good.

#19 Posted by Hysteria (126 posts) - 1 year, 12 days ago - Show Bio

I would go with Ultimate. Since Kitty Pryde is one of my favourite X-Men and many of my other favourite X-Men aren't in Uncanny I'll definitely go for Ultimate.

#20 Posted by x_29 (2253 posts) - 1 year, 11 days ago - Show Bio

Uncanny, but that is not saying much.

#21 Posted by John Valentine (15777 posts) - 1 year, 11 days ago - Show Bio

@x_29 said:

Uncanny, but that is not saying much.

Coming from a fan of Liu's X-23, that's not saying much.

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The Uncanny X-Men are a superhero team of mutants that were founded by fellow mutant Professor Charles Xavier. They are dedicated to helping fellow mutants and sworn to protect a world that fears and hates them.

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